Alain Chesnais
@alainchesnais.bsky.social
Founder BlueSkyTrendz - https://blueskytrendz.com/
Past President of the ACM - acm.org
Past President of ACM SIGGRAPH - https://siggraph.org/
Past Director of Engineering, Maya - https://autodesk.com/products/maya
Past President of the ACM - acm.org
Past President of ACM SIGGRAPH - https://siggraph.org/
Past Director of Engineering, Maya - https://autodesk.com/products/maya
BlueSky has surpassed 40 million users
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
BlueSky has surpassed 40 million users
39 million users and counting. Bravo BlueSky!
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
39 million users and counting. Bravo BlueSky!
Realized that in the last Gemini picture representing LEGO Alain celebrating the end of SIGGRAPH 2025 with the student volunteers, Gemini had forgotten to include his beard and mustache! So I regenerated the image telling Gemini not to forget them 😀
July 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Realized that in the last Gemini picture representing LEGO Alain celebrating the end of SIGGRAPH 2025 with the student volunteers, Gemini had forgotten to include his beard and mustache! So I regenerated the image telling Gemini not to forget them 😀
More fun with Gemini. I challenged Gemini to generate a picture of LEGO Alain celebrating the end of the conference with the SVs. Still haven't managed to get it to place the SIGGRAPH logo on his shrt, but I'm working on it. I did finally manage to convince Gemini that LEGO Alain is not a giant.
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
More fun with Gemini. I challenged Gemini to generate a picture of LEGO Alain celebrating the end of the conference with the SVs. Still haven't managed to get it to place the SIGGRAPH logo on his shrt, but I'm working on it. I did finally manage to convince Gemini that LEGO Alain is not a giant.
Having run out of tokens for video generation on Veo 3 today, I defaulted to asking Gemini for an image of LEGO Alain at the Pathfinders booth asking for help as a first time SIGGRAPH attendee.
July 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Having run out of tokens for video generation on Veo 3 today, I defaulted to asking Gemini for an image of LEGO Alain at the Pathfinders booth asking for help as a first time SIGGRAPH attendee.
37 million users
June 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
37 million users
Playing with the Julia set visualizer linked in the video description you can explore fractal space yourself.
June 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Playing with the Julia set visualizer linked in the video description you can explore fractal space yourself.
Loving the Drudge Report's AI generated image depicting Trump as the Taco king.
May 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Loving the Drudge Report's AI generated image depicting Trump as the Taco king.
36 million users and counting...
May 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
36 million users and counting...
35 million users!
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
35 million users!
NASDAQ down almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year. So much winning for the US president!
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NASDAQ down almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year. So much winning for the US president!
34 million and counting...
April 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
34 million and counting...
NASDAQ has dropped over 5%
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NASDAQ has dropped over 5%
DOW futures just dropped close to 3% after the tariff announcements
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
DOW futures just dropped close to 3% after the tariff announcements
French newspaper Libération is reporting that french people are boycotting US products.
journal.liberation.fr
journal.liberation.fr
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
French newspaper Libération is reporting that french people are boycotting US products.
journal.liberation.fr
journal.liberation.fr
Watching the VIX volatility index since Trump took office. Not good! What this tells us is that the market has little trust in the Trump administration's ability to deliver predictable results that CEOs can make long term plans on.
March 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Watching the VIX volatility index since Trump took office. Not good! What this tells us is that the market has little trust in the Trump administration's ability to deliver predictable results that CEOs can make long term plans on.
33 million users and counting....
March 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
33 million users and counting....
32 million users and counting...
February 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
32 million users and counting...
A picture taken 35 years ago at my first startup: Studio Base 2 while my wife was feeding our youngest son. Both my sons got very early access to computers and are both programmers today.
We sold the company in 1991 and it is still operating today: studiobase2.com
We sold the company in 1991 and it is still operating today: studiobase2.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A picture taken 35 years ago at my first startup: Studio Base 2 while my wife was feeding our youngest son. Both my sons got very early access to computers and are both programmers today.
We sold the company in 1991 and it is still operating today: studiobase2.com
We sold the company in 1991 and it is still operating today: studiobase2.com
Trying out Apple's Image playground on Mac OS 18.3 with the prompt "a research scientist holding on to his papers".
Yes, I'm a fan of Two Minute Papers 😀
www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...
Yes, I'm a fan of Two Minute Papers 😀
www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...
January 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Trying out Apple's Image playground on Mac OS 18.3 with the prompt "a research scientist holding on to his papers".
Yes, I'm a fan of Two Minute Papers 😀
www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...
Yes, I'm a fan of Two Minute Papers 😀
www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...
30 million and counting…
January 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
30 million and counting…
